Territory



(No Model.)

'2. H. JACOBS;

BEDGLOTHES FASTENER. I No. 512,966. PatentedJan. 16, 1894.

ummuu WWW WITNESSES: INVENTOH STArnsfPATE T Orr-ICE.

ZEBULON HENRY JAooBs, on sam- LAKE ClTY, UTAH TERRITORY.-

BEDC LOTHES-FASTE N ER SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent nofeiaeee, dated January 16, 1894'. Application filed February 7, 1893. Serial 461,333. (No model.)

' foo't-board is a fastening bar 13'which is, 7

To all whom it may concern: 7

'Be it known that I, ZEBULON HENRY JA 0013s, of Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, have invented a new and Improved Bedclothes-Fastener, f

' which the following is a full, clear, and ex act description.

In making beds it is customary to hold the covers or clothes in place by tucking them together and beneath the edges of the mattress, and when thus made it is a common occurrenceto have the clothes at the foot of the bed work loose, especially if the occupant is somewhat restless. Such an accident is always annoying and attended with more or less discomfort; and the object of my invention is to obviate the difficulty mentioned and provide a simple and positive Working device which may be applied to any ordinary bedstead and by which the bed-clothes at the foot of the bed may be held firmly in posit1on but also conveniently released when necessary.

To this end my invention consists in certam features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forminga part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken perspective view of a bedstead with my invention applied thereto. F1g. 2 is a broken perspective view on an enlarged scale, and shows in detail the movable fastening bar and the mechanism for holding it in place. Fig. 3 is a broken detail view showing the screw for holding one end of the fastening bar, and showing also the locking pawlwhich is in engagement with the screw; and Fig. 4 is a cross section through the footboard and through the clothes fastening mechanism.

In the drawings the foot-board 10 and side rails 11 are of the common kind and may be of any style whatever. Extending between the rails parallel with the foot-board and at a little distance from the same, is a fixed cross bar 12 having end flanges 12 by which it is fastened to the rails, although it may be fastened in any convenient way, and parallel with this cross bar and between it and the adapted to slide between the cross bar 12 and the foot-board. The sliding bar 13 has screws E14 in its ends which have squared shanks heldto slide in slots 15 in the rails 11 and in wear plates 16 which are secured to the rails; The screws 14 thus serve to guide the fastening bar, and the protruding ends of the screws may be grasped when the fastening bar is to be pushed toward the cross bar; the ends of the fastening bar slide between cleats 17 on the rails, but the cleats may be dispensed with if desired. The fastening bar 13 is pressed normally into contact with the footboard by spiral springs 18 or their equivalents which are arranged between the fastoning bar and the cross bar 12, and to insure the firm holding of the clothes between the fastening bar and the foot-board, the adjacent faces of said parts are roughened, as shown at 19 and 20, and the roughened faces should be of wood, rubber, or some material which will exert sufficient friction on the clothes and will not injure them.

It will be seen that it the clothes are tucked between the fastening bar and the foot-board, theywill be clamped securely in place, but it is necessary to have the fastening bar held forward While the bed is being made, so that the bed-clothes or covers may be properly adjusted. To this enda fastening or locking device isarranged at each end of the fastening bar, so as to hold the bar forward. One of these devices is shown very clearly in Fig. 3.

0n the back of each plate 16 is pivoted a pawl 21, and this pawl has a shoulder 22 thereon which is adapted to engage the screw 14 and prevent the screw and fastening bar from being pressed back by the springs 18. The back edge of the shoulder 22 is arranged so that the screw 14 may be pushed forward beneath it, and at the free end of the pawl is a knob or handle 23 which projects outward through an upwardly extending curved slot 24 in the plate 16. By taking hold of this knob the pawl may be'raised so as to release the screw 14 and the fastening bar 13, and it may also be pushed downward into place so as to make sure that the screw and bar are locked. When the bed is to be made the fastoning bar 13 is pressed forward and locked lower ends of the bed covers are placed between the fastening bar and the foot-board. The pawls 21 are then raised so as to release the screws 14 and the fastening bar, which pressed by the springs 18, immediately flies backward and clamps the clothes securely between itself and the roughened surface of the f0otb0ard. When the clothes or covers are to be released, the fastening bar is pressed forward again as described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with the bedstead, of a fixed cross bar extending between the rails and secured at its ends thereto parallel with the foot-board, and a spring-pressed sliding fastening having guide bolts 14 slidingin the slotted rails and wear plates bar arranged between the fixed bar and the foot-board and adapted to bind the clothes between itself and the foot-board, substantially as described.

2. The combination with the bedstead, of a cross bar extending between and secured at its ends to the rails and opposite the footboard, a fastening bar held to slide between the cross bar and foot-board, springs arranged between the two bars, lockingpawls held to the rails in the path of the ends'of the fastening bar and adapted to'drop behind and hold the same away from the foot-board, and knobs secured to the pawls and extending outward through slots in the rails, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the bedstead having longitudinal slots in the foot ends of its rails and the longitudinally. slotted plates 16, of the cross bar 12, fixedly secured at its ends to the rails, the cross bar 13 having screws or pins at its ends extending through said slots, the vertically swinging pawls pivoted on the inner sides of the plates 16 with their shoulders 22 crossing the slots to drop behind the end pins of the cross bar 13 when it is moved away from the foot board, springs interposed between the two bars and pressing the bar 13 against the foot board, and operating handles or knobs for the pawls extending outwardly through slots in the rails, substantially as set forth.

ZEBULON HENRY JACOBS. Witnesses:

THOMAS KENNEDY, CHAS. E. IIERRON.

It is hereby certified that-in Letters Patent No. 512,966, granted January 16, 189i, upon the application of Zebulon Henry Jacobs, of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, for an iniprovement in Bedclothes-Fasteners, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In line 19, page 2, the word bar should be stricken out and inserted after the word fastening in line 18 same page; and that the Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Ofice. Q

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 6th day of March, A. D. 1894.

JNO. M. REYNOLDS,

[SEAL.]

Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Oountersigned JOHN S. SEYMOUR,

Commissioner of Patents. 

